ronjhall
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My son installed mine. Not sure who installed Birds. Jim Inman and I saw Birds when we visited him at his home a few years ago.
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My son installed mine. Not sure who installed Birds. Jim Inman and I saw Birds when we visited him at his home a few years ago.
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Good Friday Morning. It's 69°F and clear this morning and heading to 91°F this afternoon. Our cooler weather is over for a while and we're envying Roy's temperature right now.
I'm about to head into Richmond to do a few thing at the house. I hope the be back here, by early afternoon, and beat Friday traffic out of town.
Randy ... glad to getting home today, just take it easy!
Don .... good luck with your porch ceiling. The W&F works well just not over night. The north gable on the carport at the house never rarely sees any sun so, it gets mildew buildup. I used my pressure washer foam cannon to apply the W&F due to the height.
Before in April;
Sprayed right side and after about ten days;
Sprayed left side;
I'll get another picture of present condition later. I'll probably give it another treatment this weekend.
Drew ...... don't over do it, in the heat, with your big harvest. Glad you've got some help. Cramps? Bananas! Potassium! Hope you have no more run-ins with bees.
Jay .... have a fun safe trip.
Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend.
Prayers to all.
Edit; Gable this morning.
I'm about to head into Richmond to do a few thing at the house. I hope the be back here, by early afternoon, and beat Friday traffic out of town.
Randy ... glad to getting home today, just take it easy!
Don .... good luck with your porch ceiling. The W&F works well just not over night. The north gable on the carport at the house never rarely sees any sun so, it gets mildew buildup. I used my pressure washer foam cannon to apply the W&F due to the height.
Before in April;
Sprayed right side and after about ten days;
Sprayed left side;
I'll get another picture of present condition later. I'll probably give it another treatment this weekend.
Drew ...... don't over do it, in the heat, with your big harvest. Glad you've got some help. Cramps? Bananas! Potassium! Hope you have no more run-ins with bees.
Jay .... have a fun safe trip.
Hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend.
Prayers to all.
Edit; Gable this morning.
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riptides
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LOL.
Fortunately I eat a good steak, that's butcher cut, and eye-ball lean, maybe twice a year.
Sniff.....
My wife is a fowl, fish and veggies consumer. And of course, one must bow to the queen. LOL.
Our processed meats diet is non-existent.
riptides
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I am big on a product called Tilex, it is a bathroom cleaner. I usually spray it on when the sun angle is just right, and walk away. Mother Nature does the rest, sun...rain.
I have all white buildings and wood around here. I usually do this in spots every 18-24 months.
I used bleach in the past, but the "mildew" would always seem to pop up in a shorter cycle than I wanted.
riptides
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Today is a dump run, fill up the gas tanks and mow day.
I got chased in yesterday by some pop up thunder clapper. And I think I cut a spot like two days ago, when I ran the mower over that area, I thought I saw clippings again. It's very healthy grass, too bad it is not palatable to us on two legs.
Have a great day all. Hope all are on the mends, and of course...be safe!
I am a metal roof fan, all our original buildings still have the original tin, the farm house was "renovated" with a standing seam, metal roof. My issue is I have some seriously big trees that muck it up. Never try a pressure washer on a metal roof when you are up there. LOL.
I got chased in yesterday by some pop up thunder clapper. And I think I cut a spot like two days ago, when I ran the mower over that area, I thought I saw clippings again. It's very healthy grass, too bad it is not palatable to us on two legs.
Have a great day all. Hope all are on the mends, and of course...be safe!
I am a metal roof fan, all our original buildings still have the original tin, the farm house was "renovated" with a standing seam, metal roof. My issue is I have some seriously big trees that muck it up. Never try a pressure washer on a metal roof when you are up there. LOL.
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Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Only a couple of degrees cooler, but I'll take it. Still not used to this hot summer weather, and every little bit helps.
Glad the epi pen worked, Drew, and you're back on the mend. Don't forget to get a replacement.
Great pic, Rich. Thanks for sharing! And congratulations, or condolences, on your promotion, whichever is most appropriate.:laughing:
I don't envy you doing that ceiling job, Don. But you've shown your expertise at properly savoring a job, dragging it out by doing little bits over a long period of time, giving yourself plenty of opportunity to recover between bouts of neck torturing and picking stuff out of your eyes. I hope you'll share the adventure with all your GM buddies; once in a while it's refreshing to see someone suffering more than you are.:laughing:
Kyle, maybe the service and care at that hospital wasn't the greatest, yet another symptom of poor management. Throwing more money at the problem wouldn't solve anything, and perhaps the voters could tell that?
Thanks for the shovel suggestions. My shopping in town yesterday didn't turn up anything promising, though the old timer at the Ace Hardware did point to the slot marked "Pony" saying "that's the meanest shovel we carry." But the slot was empty. I read a few round up type reviews this morning, some so full of Chinglish so as to be hardly readable, but only one that sounded like the person had gone out and actually used the shovels being reviewed. I've decided to go with their recommendation, even though my worst abuses are probably better addressed by one of the monster shovels he looked at.But I'm pretty sure I'm not man enough to swing anything that weighs eight pounds, let alone something as unwieldy as a shovel.
Swung by the upholstery shop and picked up a new piece of foam for the side-by-side seat; the old one had devolved into two very lumpy and hard buckets and badly needed replacement. Also got another sheet of ABS for door cards on the van, and some carpet padding to put under the carpet I'll use over the engine hatch. We'll see how the old Consew sewing machine does on that combo, it'll be almost 3/4" thick. The cover on the side-by-seat is kinda torn up by the sun, and when I asked about a replacement piece, he mentioned he had lots of short ends at his storage facility, but his big rolls were stacked on their sides and very hard to get to. I suggested we go over to see if we could find something that would work, so we did, and he drove us across town while we both marveled at how much things had changed, and not necessarily for the better. Lots of homeless and bums in Oroville, and none of them shy about putting in an appearance. The storage place was the typical maze of garages stacked side by side, and I honestly don't know how he found his with all the twisting and turning that was involved. Then when he rolled up the door, stuff came flying out it was so full, almost floor to ceiling. But he climbed up on the pile and after a few minutes of tossing stuff around located a light gray piece of vinyl that looked like it would do a very nice job. This little Aladdin's Cave will take him forever to sell off, which he intends to do in his retirement, so my fears of being cut off from upholstery supplies are somewhat diminished.But only if he somehow manages to organize the mess!:laughing:
Things didn't go nearly as well at the building department, where no amount of explaining to the slovenly "Jason" could convince him that the signed and stamped engineering analysis applied to the appropriately identified and addressed, but separate, detailed construction plan, even though the mechanical drawings in both were identical. My sales lady wan't too pleased to hear that, but she did agree to go one more round with the manufacturer to see if they can help. But it's far more likely that I'll be out a few hundred more bucks to have a local engineering pro put his stamp and signature on one or both of those pieces of paper. Sigh.:banghead:
The sales person did have a battery bank proposal, based on a 12 hour load of 5400 VA as measured when I was powering the house with the generator while both well pumps were running. The battery bank would have been composed of seventy-two (72!:shocked 2 volt, 1215 amp hour batteries, each costing nearly $700! OK, well, er, maybe I don't need to run those pumps quite so long before the generator comes on. Besides, the pump house where the batteries will live is only 8'x10', and the stack would have covered the short wall to the ceiling and been two layers deep. Uh uh. So we'll go with one 1/3 the size, one string of 24 batteries instead of three, and only four hours of run time. The basis for the sizing was the emergency situation where a wildfire was approaching the house and the utility had already cut the electrical power. I figure if I'm there, I can time the start of the pumps so the four hours of protection will be long enough to let the fire pass, even if the generator refuses to start. And if I'm not there, unless I can come up with some kind of Buck Rogers method for detecting the fire and automatically starting the pumps, it's not a life-and-death proposition so it doesn't matter as much if they run at all.
Then she needed help on deciding on three inverters or only two, or even one, and her concern was with surge current. I have some pretty large electric motors, one of which might draw as much as 200 amps on startup, more than even three inverters could supply. But the surge lasts only a small fraction of a second, and the inverter ratings are for one, five, and thirty minutes, so we need to figure out a way to compare apples to apples. Hopefully she's up to the task, and I bet I'm the first customer she's had that has asked these kinds of questions. That poor woman; I wonder if she's figured out yet she's dealing with an engineer?:laughing:
The winds are calm enough to spray this morning, so I'll go out and give the weeds a drink of glyphosate until they pick up. Then maybe tackle the paperwork I need to file with the local utility for the solar power system. Or maybe pull a page out of Drew's book and enjoy a rum drink or two on the patio. It's no Outer Banks, but it's a lot more convenient!
TGIF gang!:drink:
Only a couple of degrees cooler, but I'll take it. Still not used to this hot summer weather, and every little bit helps.
Glad the epi pen worked, Drew, and you're back on the mend. Don't forget to get a replacement.
Great pic, Rich. Thanks for sharing! And congratulations, or condolences, on your promotion, whichever is most appropriate.:laughing:
I don't envy you doing that ceiling job, Don. But you've shown your expertise at properly savoring a job, dragging it out by doing little bits over a long period of time, giving yourself plenty of opportunity to recover between bouts of neck torturing and picking stuff out of your eyes. I hope you'll share the adventure with all your GM buddies; once in a while it's refreshing to see someone suffering more than you are.:laughing:
Kyle, maybe the service and care at that hospital wasn't the greatest, yet another symptom of poor management. Throwing more money at the problem wouldn't solve anything, and perhaps the voters could tell that?
Thanks for the shovel suggestions. My shopping in town yesterday didn't turn up anything promising, though the old timer at the Ace Hardware did point to the slot marked "Pony" saying "that's the meanest shovel we carry." But the slot was empty. I read a few round up type reviews this morning, some so full of Chinglish so as to be hardly readable, but only one that sounded like the person had gone out and actually used the shovels being reviewed. I've decided to go with their recommendation, even though my worst abuses are probably better addressed by one of the monster shovels he looked at.But I'm pretty sure I'm not man enough to swing anything that weighs eight pounds, let alone something as unwieldy as a shovel.
Swung by the upholstery shop and picked up a new piece of foam for the side-by-side seat; the old one had devolved into two very lumpy and hard buckets and badly needed replacement. Also got another sheet of ABS for door cards on the van, and some carpet padding to put under the carpet I'll use over the engine hatch. We'll see how the old Consew sewing machine does on that combo, it'll be almost 3/4" thick. The cover on the side-by-seat is kinda torn up by the sun, and when I asked about a replacement piece, he mentioned he had lots of short ends at his storage facility, but his big rolls were stacked on their sides and very hard to get to. I suggested we go over to see if we could find something that would work, so we did, and he drove us across town while we both marveled at how much things had changed, and not necessarily for the better. Lots of homeless and bums in Oroville, and none of them shy about putting in an appearance. The storage place was the typical maze of garages stacked side by side, and I honestly don't know how he found his with all the twisting and turning that was involved. Then when he rolled up the door, stuff came flying out it was so full, almost floor to ceiling. But he climbed up on the pile and after a few minutes of tossing stuff around located a light gray piece of vinyl that looked like it would do a very nice job. This little Aladdin's Cave will take him forever to sell off, which he intends to do in his retirement, so my fears of being cut off from upholstery supplies are somewhat diminished.But only if he somehow manages to organize the mess!:laughing:
Things didn't go nearly as well at the building department, where no amount of explaining to the slovenly "Jason" could convince him that the signed and stamped engineering analysis applied to the appropriately identified and addressed, but separate, detailed construction plan, even though the mechanical drawings in both were identical. My sales lady wan't too pleased to hear that, but she did agree to go one more round with the manufacturer to see if they can help. But it's far more likely that I'll be out a few hundred more bucks to have a local engineering pro put his stamp and signature on one or both of those pieces of paper. Sigh.:banghead:
The sales person did have a battery bank proposal, based on a 12 hour load of 5400 VA as measured when I was powering the house with the generator while both well pumps were running. The battery bank would have been composed of seventy-two (72!:shocked
2 volt, 1215 amp hour batteries, each costing nearly $700! OK, well, er, maybe I don't need to run those pumps quite so long before the generator comes on. Besides, the pump house where the batteries will live is only 8'x10', and the stack would have covered the short wall to the ceiling and been two layers deep. Uh uh. So we'll go with one 1/3 the size, one string of 24 batteries instead of three, and only four hours of run time. The basis for the sizing was the emergency situation where a wildfire was approaching the house and the utility had already cut the electrical power. I figure if I'm there, I can time the start of the pumps so the four hours of protection will be long enough to let the fire pass, even if the generator refuses to start. And if I'm not there, unless I can come up with some kind of Buck Rogers method for detecting the fire and automatically starting the pumps, it's not a life-and-death proposition so it doesn't matter as much if they run at all. Then she needed help on deciding on three inverters or only two, or even one, and her concern was with surge current. I have some pretty large electric motors, one of which might draw as much as 200 amps on startup, more than even three inverters could supply. But the surge lasts only a small fraction of a second, and the inverter ratings are for one, five, and thirty minutes, so we need to figure out a way to compare apples to apples. Hopefully she's up to the task, and I bet I'm the first customer she's had that has asked these kinds of questions. That poor woman; I wonder if she's figured out yet she's dealing with an engineer?:laughing:
The winds are calm enough to spray this morning, so I'll go out and give the weeds a drink of glyphosate until they pick up. Then maybe tackle the paperwork I need to file with the local utility for the solar power system. Or maybe pull a page out of Drew's book and enjoy a rum drink or two on the patio. It's no Outer Banks, but it's a lot more convenient!
TGIF gang!:drink:
PJSprog
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52°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 80° today. Looking like rain pretty much every day for the next week.
Congrats to the Raptors. Nice to see that championship finally make it to Canada, where it all started.
Speaking of championships ... the Stanley Cup parade is scheduled for tomorrow in STL. Forecasts are calling for rain, but I don't think people will care. Kind of bummed that I can't make it, as a previous commitment can't be dismissed. Going to be crazy down there anyway, and I'm not a huge fan of ridiculously large crowds.
Congrats to the Raptors. Nice to see that championship finally make it to Canada, where it all started.
Speaking of championships ... the Stanley Cup parade is scheduled for tomorrow in STL. Forecasts are calling for rain, but I don't think people will care. Kind of bummed that I can't make it, as a previous commitment can't be dismissed. Going to be crazy down there anyway, and I'm not a huge fan of ridiculously large crowds.
cat fever
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Good morning all,
50 and sun/cloud mix with no wind to start the day.
Yesterday I was able to start getting the rain gutter drains installed. We got all we could digging by hand. Now the trench needs to be deeper and I'm waiting for a backhoe. Hope he comes today. I could finish all the drains in less than an hour with the backhoe. Didn't take any pictures but I'll try and remember today.
Take care and prayers for all.
50 and sun/cloud mix with no wind to start the day.
Yesterday I was able to start getting the rain gutter drains installed. We got all we could digging by hand. Now the trench needs to be deeper and I'm waiting for a backhoe. Hope he comes today. I could finish all the drains in less than an hour with the backhoe. Didn't take any pictures but I'll try and remember today.
Take care and prayers for all.
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Sorry to hear about your roof, Ron. The shingles were shot on the first house I ever bought, so the seller put on a new roof. Should have guessed they wouldn't use top flight materials, so when I went to sell the place almost 15 years later, I found thirty foot cracks running the length of the roof. I called the roofer that did the work, and when he checked his receipts he learned that the shingles had been recalled. Apparently it was something that happened quite frequently on fiberglass shingles of that age, and there had been a class action lawsuit to force the payments. It wasn't much of a reimbursement, but an even bigger problem was finding a roofer that would put on a third layer of shingles. Most everyone else wanted to do a tear off, and since I was selling the place, I didn't want to spend the money. My realtor found a cooperative roofer, but then the buyer wanted to claim the refund check from the shingle manufacturer! That buyer wanted a LOT of things, to the point that I told the realtor to put the house back on the market and we'd find a less picky buyer. Apparently that shut up the buyer and the deal eventually closed:laughing: So all that is a long winded way of saying maybe you're also the victim of defective shingles, and there may be some money coming your way if you can figure out who made them.
And Thomas, it sounds like that fox momma is earning her keep!:thumbsup:
All the foxes do here is leave turds on my welcome mat!:laughing:
And Thomas, it sounds like that fox momma is earning her keep!:thumbsup:
All the foxes do here is leave turds on my welcome mat!:laughing:
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